Category Archives: 20something

My older siblings landed on earth in the late 1970s and there’s a 10-year gap before you get to me. As a toddler I witnessed their comings and goings with a fanatical eye. I watched their hurried exits to part-time … Continue reading →

I’m in the car, a radio hit from my childhood begins to play. I smirk as the warmth and familiarity of Brownstone’s “If You Love Me” washes over me. A vocal tainted by auto-tune interrupts. That hit has been sampled … Continue reading →

A Note on TV’s Lady Besties in 2015 I have two long distance best friends. Two pillars of love and light that have helped me mine the quarter-life sagas of situationships, family illnesses, and (f)unemployment. While they’re hunkered down in … Continue reading →

I thought, Where is the holiday? while I rubbed my dry hands together and waited for the defroster to kick in. I don’t truly mean Christmas or Hanukkah or whatever others, but more the notion of “happy holidays”, that weird … Continue reading →

In this consumer-based world, Thanksgiving is sandwiched between Halloween and Christmas. That is what the facades of stores and coffee shops tell us, it is what the inside of department stores look like, and it is what the radio will … Continue reading →

Thanksgiving is a time in these United States for good food and merriment and naps after turkey. It is also a time for realizing how little you like your relatives and how few hiding places there are in your house. … Continue reading →

For me, the pleasantness of any day rests heavily on its soundtrack. On a day like today, when the drizzle starts as a chilly pinprick and develops into a steady shower, disappears for those few hours in the afternoon, only … Continue reading →

They say “history repeats itself”, not sure who “they” are, but they are right. We see this in all aspects of culture in today’s society. Whether it’s the bringing back of Polaroid cameras, the new obsession with the VHS camcorder … Continue reading →

From the WWE Website If you’re a sports fan like myself, you know that there is a sort of sports lull after the Super Bowl. Yes, basketball and hockey are in the middle of their seasons, but most people don’t … Continue reading →